British Library Presentation

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Introductions and HousekeepingTaking the TourDigital Research- What makes a good question?The British Library is the busiest research library in the world.It has 2000 staff and 11 reading rooms,with over 1500 reader's desks.It is one of the 4 largest libraries in the world,with over 200 million items in the collection.The Library keeps a copy of everything formally published in the UK.It has documents in every human language that has ever gone into print.It has 8000 new acquisitions every day.

It's biggest book is the 'Klenke Atlas' at nearly 2 metres high,and it's smallest is a version of the poem 'Old King Cole' which is 1mm square.The British Library keeps over 7,000,000 itemsat a special complex in Boston Spa in Yorkshire.Exercise One:Fact and FictionThe Ritblat GalleryPreziEmail: learning@bl.ukPassword: digitalpathways

3. Communicating your findingsWhen and where was John Cabot born?How many sons did Cabot have?When did John Cabot die?FocusedDefinedAnswerableFormat of the book or document?Form of language? Literature, report, diary, fact, fiction?Audience?Social/historical context?Keep cuttings next to your PC and highlight keywordsKeep notes on an open Word doc to create an instant bibliographyBe aware of plagiarism!Take grabs and paste into Word - save site and imagesUse favourites to your best advantage – open a folder for each new research area and make sure you save useful pagesUse 'view source' (and other similar tools) and see what information you can find in the codehttp://animoto.com/play/IObjU1GLfvrvZ346yMjx9g#http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/cabot.shtmlhttp://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/cabot/The Bhopal Disaster